Practical Ideas and Strategies

Specifically designed for school-based occupational therapists, this seminar presented by sought-after school therapist, BeverlyMoskowitz, is rich with dozens of practical, timesaving strategies to make you more effective and more efficient. Increase teacher follow through and student carryover by broadening your scope of strategies that cut across the curriculum. Become more confident and comfortable embedding your treatments into the classroom and integrating your treatment goals with academic content.

Expand your professional repertoire with proven and easy-to-implement options that support best practices yet are cognizant of the time, budgetary and instructional limitations in today’s busy schools. Embed OT strategies, measurable goals and inclusive practices throughout all settings and all school environments. Learn how to be more proficient in managing your time, more economical with your paperwork and more quantitative in your data collection.

You leave with new, innovative strategies that ensure the function, participation and independence are achievable goals for your students!

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Timesaving and Highly Effective Strategies to Better Integrate Your OT Interventions into the Classroom
Spend less time planning and more time providing therapy in classrooms … Discover efficient and creative ways to address fine motor, manipulative, movement, sensory, and handwriting issues during instructional time

Optimize Impact and Social Skill Carryover
Identify new and innovative opportunities to develop self-regulation, social acuity and peer mentors … Tap into peer groups to expand disability awareness and acceptance … Kids teaching kids … Way more efficient!!

Explore Valid and Reliable Data Collection Methods
Quantify skills, tasks and goals through participation-based progress monitoring … Appreciate the ease and validity of goal-attainment scaling as well as the tremendous timesaving benefits of rubrics

Tap into the General Education Classroom Curriculum
Save time and add authenticity to your OT practice using general education lesson plans, state standards and the Written Language Production Standards as your guide to help teachers write lesson plans that support mutual goals … Gain collaborative ideas you can take back and use immediately

Individualize treatments with Low and High-Tech Options
Explore drawing features of Word and Pages to create worksheets that can be saved, mailed, and customized … Learn how the Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative (WATI) expedites AT assessments and decisions … Don’t reinvent the wheel … Awesome stuff is easy and free and is at your fingertips!

To Write or Not to Write Goals? That is the Question!
Merge OT goals with teacher goals? Expand the scope and practice of school-based OT into homes and the community? How can more work be less work? Learn how workload models not only promote the ideals of IDEA, but also improve time management.

Address the Volumes of Handwriting Referrals More Effectively
Discover how alternate conceptual frameworks, structure and work materials change legibility and competency immediately as identified in the Size Matters Handwriting Program

Strengthen Specially Designed Instruction for Consistent Follow-Through
Clarify distinctions between types of accommodation … Identify and share do-able strategies that promote OT sensibilities, access and participation across the curriculum

Identify strategies to help your OT students increase participation, independence and executive functioning in the classroom

Discuss how you can increase your comfort within the classroom by clarifying your role as an educationally-based OT and a related service provider

Select the best collaboration strategies to communicate more effectivelywith teachers and parents from students’ intake to graduation

Select data collection and goal writing that is measurable, meaningful, realistic, and fast

Create rubrics that address real student needs at home, the community and school

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

In my 42+ years of practice, I’ve witnessed a seismic evolution in OT’s role as service providers in school. Initially defined through individual treatments, we have grown as collaborators and coordinators now charged with realizing IDEA’s mandate to address all needs in all settings. Fortunately, it has been a model and a mission in my own practice long before it became a movement within our profession. Following AOTA’s 2025 Vision, IDEA guidelines and tireless research, I will share dozens of do-able, innovative and easy ideas to implement best practices in the most efficient and effective ways possible.

Let’s learn together how your schools and students can benefit from our unique OT perspectives delivered in authentic settings. Integrate OT interventions across the curriculum. Explore alternative progress monitoring options like rubrics. Graduate students as neat printers using a truly evidence-based, embeddable handwriting program. Discover free resources for lesson plans and goal writing, parent education and self-regulation, interdisciplinary collaboration and professional growth, and more. Maximize your time by shifting your practice from a caseload model to a workload one.

I invite you to join me for a day rich in realistic, measurable, embeddable, practical and timesaving strategies designed to help you and your students experience success … and have fun doing it!!

I look forward to meeting you at the seminar!

Sincerely,
Beverly H. Moskowitz, DOT MS OTR/L FAOTA

P.S. The emphasis of this seminar is on timesaving, measurable and embeddablestrategies for today’s busy OTs.

Add authenticity to your social and sensory programs
Planning, Organizing and Individualizing To Do lists and worksheets for younger and older students, including demonstrations
Increase efficiency in AT assessments using the Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative
Expedite goal writing with the Written Language Production Standards and more

11:45-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:00

Save time teaching printing with the Size Matters Handwriting Program
Collect measurable valid data with Rubrics and Goal-Attainment Scaling
Lab

2:00-2:05

Break

2:05-3:15

Reports, Notes and Specially Designed Instruction/Accommodations
Collaborating more effectively with teachers and therapists
Best Practice. Making the move to a Workload model

Meet and Share
This seminar provides a great opportunity for occupational therapists to meet and share ideas for improving the effectiveness of their school-based programs.

Consultation Available
Beverly Moskowitz will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own occupational therapy program.

AOTA – CEUsBER is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. Full attendance at this seminar qualifies for .5 AOTA CEUs/5 Contact Hours per day of attendance. You will be required to sign a morning and afternoon attendance roster and complete a program evaluation. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
AOTA Educational level, Introductory, AOTA Classification Codes - Category 1: Domain of OT, Category 2: Occupational Therapy Process.
Timed Agenda

Semester Credit Option
Up to four Graduate level professional development credit are available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities.
Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at this BER program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive
a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in
meeting continuing education requirements.